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Hospital-based Surveillance for Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis in the Era of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Ghana

Authors :
Thomas Dankwah
Archibald Worwui
Bernard Ntsama
Daniel Ansong
Jonas Tettey Kusah
Martin Antonio
Madikay Senghore
Bernard Arhin
Brenda Kwanbana Adams
Lorna Renner
Yvonne Addo
Peter Slyvanus Ndow
John Asamoah
Marah Awunyo
Jason M. Mwenda
Effua Usuf
Stanley K. Diamenu
Sandra Kwarteng Owusu
Nuredin Mohammed
Joseph Nsiari-Muzeyi Biey
Source :
Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Oxford University Press, 2019.

Abstract

Background Global surveillance for vaccine preventable invasive bacterial diseases has been set up by the World Health Organization to provide disease burden data to support decisions on introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). We present data from 2010 to 2016 collected at the 2 sentinel sites in Ghana. Methods Data were collected from children<br />The number of children

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15376591 and 10584838
Volume :
69
Issue :
Suppl 2
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....0f035ee607b2b6a0405c05b94bd37abf